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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapter 4-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many students were expelled on March 2, 1960, by the Alabama Board of Education?
(a) 2.
(b) 36.
(c) 94.
(d) 9.

2. What book was Dr. King signing on September 20, 1958?
(a) The Measure of a Man.
(b) Stride Toward Freedom.
(c) Why We Can't Wait.
(d) Strength to Love.

3. Where were the lunch counter sit-ins conducted on August 19 by the NAACP?
(a) Montgomery.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) California.
(d) Oklahoma City.

4. What happened to Dr. King as he was signing books on September 20, 1958?
(a) He was verbally assaulted.
(b) He was punched.
(c) He was shot.
(d) He was stabbed.

5. Where did Dr. King move days after his thirty-first birthday?
(a) Newnan, Georgia.
(b) Knoxville, Tennessee.
(c) Atlanta, Georgia.
(d) Mobile, Alabama.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the historic Brown vs. Topeka, Kansas Board of Education Supreme Court decision handed down?

2. What did the civil rights bill, signed on September 9, 1957, establish?

3. Who was the first black student to graduate from the high school in Arkansas on May 27, 1958?

4. What are attempts to attack laws and customs that prohibited African Americans from eating at lunch counters next to Caucasians called?

5. How long did it take for Dr. King's address to students at Berkeley (1957) to be published?

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